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COMMENCEMENT PLANNED
Alvin Rogness Will Preach SATURDAY, JUNE FOURTH
11:30 noon Luncheon: Greater Augustana At Baccalaureate Service Association Council and Board
of Management. Fireside Lounge,
Science Building
2:00 P.M. Board of Directors, Augustana
College
6:30 P.M. Smorgasbord: Greater Augustana
Association (which includes
graduates, former students, and
friends of Augustana College)
Augustana Gym-Auditorium
SUNDAY, JUNE FIFTH
9:30 and
11:00 A.M. Worship services in Sioux Falls
churches
3:00 P.M. Concert, Augustana Gym-Audi-torium
7:30 P.M. Baccalaureate Service, First
Lutheran Church
8:30 P.M. Faculty reception for Graduates
and their Parents, Parlors of
First Lutheran Church
MONDAY, JUNE SIXTH
10:00 A.M. Commencement Exercises, Wash-ington
High School Auditorium.
VOL. 37 MAY-JUNE, 1955 No. 5
Dr. Alvin N. Rogness will give the
sermon, "The Life Unpredictable," during
baccalaureate service on Sunday, June 5.
The service will take place in First Lutheran
Church where Dr. Rogness was pastor from
December 1951 until he took over his duties
as president of Luther Theological Seminary,
St. Paul, in January of this year.
Dr. Rogness graduated from Augustana in
1927 and remained at the college for a year
as speech instructor. He attended Luther
Seminary from 1928 to 1930, returning to
Augie to become field instructor at the time
funds were being raised to finish the gym-nasium.
Later he graduated from the sem-inary
and studied toward a doctorate at the
University of Minnesota.
After being ordained in 1931, he served
parishes in Duluth, Minnesota; Ames, Iowa;
and Sioux Falls. He served on the board of
trustees of St. Olaf College from 1942 to
1951. He has been chairman of the ELC
Board of Christian Education.
Dr. Rogness is the author of four books,
"On The Way," "If God Were King,"
"The Age and You" and "Who Shall Be
God?"
Myklebust Will
Receive Award
Dr. Helmer Myklebust, '33, Chicago,
Director of the Northwestern University
Hearing and Aphasia Clinic, has been
named recipient of the Fourth Annual
Alumni Achievement Award of the Greater
Augustana Association.
Myklebust will be present to receive the
award at the GAA dinner at 6:30 p.m.,
Saturday, June 4, in the college gym.
The Achievement Award is an annual
presentation to individuals selected by the
GAA as having made an unusual contribu-tion
to their profession, their community,
church or to Augustana.
Previous Award winners include: 1952:
Dr. O. Tonning, Professor Emeritus, Aug-ustana;
1953: Dr. Raymond Olson, '34,
Director of Stewardship, The Evangelical
Lutheran Church, Minneapolis; 1954: Sig
Mickelson, '34, Vice-President, News and
Public Affairs, CBS, New York.
FOR JUNE 4-6
Christensen Is Speaker
At Graduation Exercises
Dr. Bernhard Christensen, president of
Augsburg College and Theological Semi-nary,
Minneapolis, since 1938, will deliver
the commencement address on June 6. The
topic which he has chosen is the "Transition
in the Christian College."
Dr. Christensen is a former member of the
Executive Committee and the Commission on
Higher Education of the American Lutheran
Conference. He has served as president of
the National Lutheran Educational Confer-ence
and as president of the Association of
Minnesota Colleges.
Dr. Christensen served as Professor of
Philosophy and Theology at Augsburg Col-lege,
the school in which he received his
undergraduate training. He took his gradu-ate
work at Princeton and Hartford Semin-aries
and at the University of Chicago. He
also spent a year in advanced study at the
Universities of Berlin and Gottingen in
Germany as a Gelston-Winthrop Fellow.
In 1953 Dr. Christensen was one of two
American lecturers participating in a series
of Lutheran theological conferences through-out
Europe. Dr. Christensen is the author
of the book "Fire Upon the Earth."

COMMENCEMENT PLANNED
Alvin Rogness Will Preach SATURDAY, JUNE FOURTH
11:30 noon Luncheon: Greater Augustana At Baccalaureate Service Association Council and Board
of Management. Fireside Lounge,
Science Building
2:00 P.M. Board of Directors, Augustana
College
6:30 P.M. Smorgasbord: Greater Augustana
Association (which includes
graduates, former students, and
friends of Augustana College)
Augustana Gym-Auditorium
SUNDAY, JUNE FIFTH
9:30 and
11:00 A.M. Worship services in Sioux Falls
churches
3:00 P.M. Concert, Augustana Gym-Audi-torium
7:30 P.M. Baccalaureate Service, First
Lutheran Church
8:30 P.M. Faculty reception for Graduates
and their Parents, Parlors of
First Lutheran Church
MONDAY, JUNE SIXTH
10:00 A.M. Commencement Exercises, Wash-ington
High School Auditorium.
VOL. 37 MAY-JUNE, 1955 No. 5
Dr. Alvin N. Rogness will give the
sermon, "The Life Unpredictable," during
baccalaureate service on Sunday, June 5.
The service will take place in First Lutheran
Church where Dr. Rogness was pastor from
December 1951 until he took over his duties
as president of Luther Theological Seminary,
St. Paul, in January of this year.
Dr. Rogness graduated from Augustana in
1927 and remained at the college for a year
as speech instructor. He attended Luther
Seminary from 1928 to 1930, returning to
Augie to become field instructor at the time
funds were being raised to finish the gym-nasium.
Later he graduated from the sem-inary
and studied toward a doctorate at the
University of Minnesota.
After being ordained in 1931, he served
parishes in Duluth, Minnesota; Ames, Iowa;
and Sioux Falls. He served on the board of
trustees of St. Olaf College from 1942 to
1951. He has been chairman of the ELC
Board of Christian Education.
Dr. Rogness is the author of four books,
"On The Way," "If God Were King,"
"The Age and You" and "Who Shall Be
God?"
Myklebust Will
Receive Award
Dr. Helmer Myklebust, '33, Chicago,
Director of the Northwestern University
Hearing and Aphasia Clinic, has been
named recipient of the Fourth Annual
Alumni Achievement Award of the Greater
Augustana Association.
Myklebust will be present to receive the
award at the GAA dinner at 6:30 p.m.,
Saturday, June 4, in the college gym.
The Achievement Award is an annual
presentation to individuals selected by the
GAA as having made an unusual contribu-tion
to their profession, their community,
church or to Augustana.
Previous Award winners include: 1952:
Dr. O. Tonning, Professor Emeritus, Aug-ustana;
1953: Dr. Raymond Olson, '34,
Director of Stewardship, The Evangelical
Lutheran Church, Minneapolis; 1954: Sig
Mickelson, '34, Vice-President, News and
Public Affairs, CBS, New York.
FOR JUNE 4-6
Christensen Is Speaker
At Graduation Exercises
Dr. Bernhard Christensen, president of
Augsburg College and Theological Semi-nary,
Minneapolis, since 1938, will deliver
the commencement address on June 6. The
topic which he has chosen is the "Transition
in the Christian College."
Dr. Christensen is a former member of the
Executive Committee and the Commission on
Higher Education of the American Lutheran
Conference. He has served as president of
the National Lutheran Educational Confer-ence
and as president of the Association of
Minnesota Colleges.
Dr. Christensen served as Professor of
Philosophy and Theology at Augsburg Col-lege,
the school in which he received his
undergraduate training. He took his gradu-ate
work at Princeton and Hartford Semin-aries
and at the University of Chicago. He
also spent a year in advanced study at the
Universities of Berlin and Gottingen in
Germany as a Gelston-Winthrop Fellow.
In 1953 Dr. Christensen was one of two
American lecturers participating in a series
of Lutheran theological conferences through-out
Europe. Dr. Christensen is the author
of the book "Fire Upon the Earth."